Accomplishments

• Helped scale TrustedHousesitters from an early-stage web business into an award-winning mobile-first consumer platform, contributing to the company's growth, international expansion, and investment readiness.
• Established the engineering foundations that enabled sustained product delivery across web and mobile, including platform architecture, CI/CD, automated testing, deployment automation, and cloud infrastructure.
• Led the evolution of the company's mobile engineering capability from the first iOS release through team scale-up, platform standardization, and award-winning customer experiences.
• Improved one of the platform's most critical customer journeys by redesigning Elasticsearch-based search infrastructure, increasing search performance by approximately 200%.
• Built scalable platform services including media processing, distributed task execution, REST APIs, containerized infrastructure, and cloud-native deployment systems that supported rapid product growth.
• Introduced engineering practices, technical standards, and delivery processes that improved release velocity, reliability, and cross-functional execution across product teams.

• Principal Engineer

  Aug 18 - Feb 201 years 7 months

  Brighton, UK

  Responsibilities

  • Lead technical direction across mobile, web, platform, and cloud architecture, balancing hands-on engineering with long-term platform strategy.
  • Own engineering delivery across Android, iOS, and web platforms, including release processes, quality standards, platform evolution, and operational reliability.
  • Define and evolve platform architecture spanning REST APIs, cloud infrastructure, containerized services, search systems, and third-party integrations.
  • Drive engineering effectiveness through CI/CD, deployment automation, testing infrastructure, and development practices that improve delivery speed and quality.
  • Partner with product, leadership, and engineering teams on roadmap planning, organizational growth, hiring, incident management, and technical execution.
  • Mentor engineers and establish engineering standards that support platform scalability and sustainable product development.

  Accomplishments

  • Scaled the mobile platform from its first iOS release into an award-winning consumer product recognized as "Most Effective B2C App" while supporting the company's investment-readiness initiatives.
  • Defined and implemented the engineering platform that enabled scalable software delivery across Android, iOS, and web teams through CI/CD, deployment automation, testing infrastructure, and cloud platform capabilities.
  • Delivered core customer-facing experiences and platform services across React, Django, Python, Go, AWS, Elasticsearch, and Docker, supporting rapid business growth and international expansion.
  • Established mobile engineering standards, hired and mentored engineers, and introduced development practices that improved quality, collaboration, and execution across teams.
  • Built the technical foundation that enabled sustained release velocity and operational reliability as the company scaled its engineering organization and product portfolio.

  Stack

  • Objective-C
  • Swift
  • Java
  • Kotlin
  • Python
  • JavaScript
  • iOS
  • Android
  • AWS
  • Docker
  • MySQL
  • Node.js
  • Redis
  • Ruby
  • Redshift
  • Elasticsearch
  • Docker
  • CI
  • Bash
  • Nginx
  • Linux
  • React Native
  • ReactJS
  • Django

• Lead Engineer

  Dec 14 - Aug 183 years 9 months

  Brighton, UK

  Responsibilities

  • Own the web platform architecture, backend services, search infrastructure, APIs, deployment systems, and engineering delivery processes.
  • Lead engineering execution across customer-facing web products, platform services, and shared infrastructure.
  • Design and operate containerized services, CI/CD systems, deployment automation, media processing pipelines, and automated testing frameworks.
  • Drive search performance, platform reliability, scalability, and operational excellence across core customer experiences.
  • Partner with Product and Design teams to deliver features while evolving the underlying platform architecture.
  • Lead engineering processes, Scrum delivery, technical standards, and production operations.

  Accomplishments

  • Established the company's foundational platform architecture, introducing containerized services, REST APIs, shared infrastructure, and engineering practices that enabled long-term product scale.
  • Improved search performance by approximately 200% through Elasticsearch redesign and query optimization, significantly enhancing one of the platform's most important user experiences.
  • Delivered core platform capabilities including media services, distributed task processing, CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and end-to-end testing infrastructure.
  • Introduced Docker-based deployment and engineering workflows that became foundational to the company's software delivery model.
  • Contributed significantly to the technical foundation that enabled the company's transition into a successful mobile-first consumer platform.

  Stack

  • Objective-C
  • Java
  • Python
  • JavaScript
  • AWS
  • Docker
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • Node.js
  • Redis
  • Redshift
  • Elasticsearch
  • Memcached
  • Docker
  • CI
  • Bash
  • Go
  • Nginx
  • Linux
  • React Native
  • ReactJS
  • Django